CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1132, 28 August 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents). MR. RICHARDSON’S LETTER HjE CART. TUCKER’S PETITION. TO THE EDITOB. Sib, —In the “Herald” of Saturday last, appeared a letter signed Pelham E. Richardson in which he evades the fi-ufA with reference to my signature to the above-named petition. Mr Richardson terms his letter private, and states that it was bad taste to nave published it, Mr Richardson might known that it was worse taste to have written it. Mr Richardson could soon be informed how he still displayed worse taste if he feels anxious to know. As far as his letter being private goes he surely must misunderstand his own meaning, otherwise he would not have termed it private. Mr Richardson had better peruse his letter over again, the enOrmouß amount of wisdom displayed in it when in print, caused him to actually verify it by another ; any person who reads his letter sent to me and published in Friday’s Standabd will easily discern the wisdom and comprehension of Mr P. E. Richardson. Mr Richardson also stated, “Mr Joyce said give me the petition and I will sign it,” I can only repeat what I did say after he had read the petition in the hall of the hotel in the presence of six persons, and then tried to bring his great persuasive powers to bear on me, was, “ Well if I sign it I will only do so as an objector,” I acco'dingly signed it as I had informed him in the presence of others and returned it. If Mr Pelham E. Richardson would only ask any of the persons who were present at the time he possibly would be able to discover the truth which his letter omits. Had it not been for the way he evades the truth in his letter I would not consider it worth replying to, as the tenor of it is so characteristic of the writer that it requires little comment.—l am, he., E. P. Joyce.